![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | New World Notes 274 - The "Seven Sisters" and the Oil of the Middle East (Part 2) - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for June 4, 2013. Second of 2 parts. The "Seven Sisters" was Big Oil. It was the cartel of huge private oil corporations that ended up owning almost all the oil in the Middle East. They stole and kept this treasure by hook and by crook, in violation of many laws, with help from corrupt monarchs abroad and muscle from the U.S. government, armed forces, and CIA. We adapt to radio a new video documentary...
Keywords: oil; Iraq; Iran; Saudi Arabia; Kuwait; Shah of Iran; Seven Sisters; Standard Oil; BP; OPEC; Gulf War |
| New World Notes 273 - The "Seven Sisters" and the Oil of the Middle East (Part 1) - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for May 28, 2013. First of 2 parts. The "Seven Sisters" was Big Oil. It was the cartel of huge private oil corporations that ended up owning almost all the oil in the Middle East. They stole and kept this treasure by hook and by crook, in violation of many laws, with help from corrupt monarchs abroad and muscle from the U.S. government, armed forces, and CIA. We adapt to radio a new video documentary...
Keywords: oil; Iraq; Iran; Saudi Arabia; Mossadeq; Seven Sisters; Standard Oil; BP; OPEC |
| New World Notes 272B - George Carlin on American BS (revised) - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for May 21, 2013. Re-edited to censor out a faint sound that might be an indecent word. In his last years, socially-engaged comedian George Carlin seemed less angry, more resigned, and shrewd as ever as he observed American politics and culture rushing to hell in a handbasket. Our show presents some of Carlin's last performances and parts of an interview--plus a Carlin-like song by David Rovics...
Keywords: George Carlin; America; United States; children; comedy; satire |
| New World Notes 272 - George Carlin on American B.S. - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for May 21, 2013. In his last years, socially-engaged comedian George Carlin seemed less angry, more resigned, and shrewd as ever as he observed American politics and culture rushing to hell in a handbasket. Our show presents some of Carlin's last performances and parts of an interview--plus a Carlin-like song by David Rovics. The theme is B.S., America, and why the two make an especially bad combination...
Keywords: George Carlin; America; United States; children; comedy; satire
Downloads: 13 |
| New World Notes 271- Orwell Rolls in his Grave (Part 2) - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for May 14, 2013. More selections from the film documentary. It's about the incestuous relationship of Big Business, the corporate-controlled media, and our prostitute government--including the courts and the FCC. This week's selection includes a close look at the corporate media's active role in stealing the election of 2000. KD provides historical background at the beginning and--at the end--an update: Obama's choice for FCC Chairman guarantees continued corporate domin...
Keywords: election; George W Bush; Robert Kane Pappas; media; press; Supreme Court |
| New World Notes 270 - Orwell Rolls in his Grave (Part 1) - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for May 7, 2013. At the recent love fest at the new W. Bush Presidential "Library," the media and Obama too celebrated our most famous torturer and warmonger. The show revealed the incestuous relationship of "the one percent," the corporate-controlled media, and our prostitute government. Time to hear a fine documentary on the very subject, "Orwell Rolls in his Grave" (2006)...
Keywords: election; George W Bush; Robert Kane Pappas; media; press
Downloads: 13 |
| New World Notes 269 - Decade War - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for April 30, 2013. Selections from Skidmark Bob's 2011 audio collage on the horrors and futility of the US's recent wars. An engaging mix of Hollywood film clips, TV news clips, new and old music, and a good British documentary about the experiences of soldiers, in a doomed outpost in Afghanistan, slowly being wiped out by the Taliban. Musical highlights include a stunning update of Country Joe's "Feels Like I'm Fixin' to Die"--plus original (1965) AND punk-rock versions...
Keywords: war; Afghanistan; Iraq; Skidmark Bob
Downloads: 6 |
| New World Notes 268 - Love and Death - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for April 23, 2013. A cockeyed look. For Death, we look at the late UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, her awful legacy--and how millions of Brits celebrated her passing by driving "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" nearly to the top of the pop charts. And we play parts of a newly-released musical bashing of Thatcher by Chumbawamba. For Love, we read a great essay on the Steubenville rape case--and why gays should think twice before adopting the heterosexuals' institutions o...
Keywords: sex; rape Steubenville; gay; marriage; Margaret Thatcher; Chumbawamba
Downloads: 11 |
| New World Notes 267 - Puberty Rites - Kenneth Dowst
Our culture lacks--and much needs--puberty rites for adolescents, such as civilized societies have. These ceremonies teach kids adult roles, reinforce community values, celebrate sex, define the licit and illicit, increase social cohesion, help teens through a difficult period, justify a big party, honor the gods, etc. I'll describe the rites of Ghana's Ashanti people, play 2 songs and a 1958 health-class movie for girls, and discuss why puberty rites won't soon be coming to the U.S...
Keywords: puberty; puberty rites; Ashanti; Ghana; Boy Scouts
Downloads: 8 |
| New World Notes 266 - A World Without Cheap Oil: Changes We Need to Make - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for April 9, 2013. In this classic speech, urbanist JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER explores some of the changes America will have to make to deal with a world of less oil and much more expensive oil. All these changes will be difficult--but some sound better than what we have now. Commuter rail lines, Main Street stores, and no more Wal-Mart? Sounds OK so far. (Conflict with China over who gets Canada's oil? Possibly not so good.) Kunstler spoke in San Francisco in March 2007...
Keywords: oil; peak oil; James Howard Kunstler
Downloads: 6 |
| New World Notes 265 - Casualties of War - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for April 2, 2013. A look at some seldom-acknowledged victims of the US's current wars. Hundreds of children killed by drone strikes ordered by President Obama. (We name 25 of the children.) Thousands of U.S. servicemembers, male and female, raped each year by other U.S. servicemembers. One soldier suicide per day and one veteran suicide per hour. Why is this happening? Features articles by Dave Lindorff, Alyssa Rohricht, and the NY Times; commentary in song by David Rovi...
Keywords: military; rape; army; suicide; drone; Yemen; Pentagon
Downloads: 4 |
| New World Notes 264 - The Corporations and the Economy - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for March 26, 2013. Corporate profits and stock prices continue to go up, up, up. Yet unemployment remains disastrously high, layoffs are increasing, poverty and personal debt are increasing. How can this be? NOAM CHOMSKY, JIM HIGHTOWER, DAVE JOHNSON, The New York Times, and singer MIKE STOUT provide some answers. Hint: don't blame nature, the Internet, new technologies, or China...
Keywords: economy; unemployment; corporations; Jim Hightower; Noam Chomsky; Wall Street
Downloads: 9 |
| New World Notes 263 - Capitalism, Democracy, and Environmental Catastrophe - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for March 19, 2013. Invited to speak on "the future of capitalism," NOAM CHOMSKY first shows that the actual US economic system is very far from real "capitalism." It is essentially socialism-for-corporations. And the political system actually in place is far from "democracy." To Chomsky, the future of the ACTUAL system--and of the planet--seem grim. For the sake of short-term profit, our business and political leaders are working hard to bring about environmental catastr...
Keywords: Noam Chomsky; capitalism; democracy; environment; climate; global warming
Downloads: 12 |
| New World Notes 262 - GMOs (3): Health Dangers - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for March 12, 2013. We adapt to radio Part 4 (and some of Part 3) of Gary Null's video documentary, "GMO: Ticking Time Bomb." Focus is on the environmental damage and health risks--both of the genetically modified crops themselves and of the potent herbicides that are used to grow GM crops. (Most GMOs are genetically modified IN ORDER to survive exposure to extremely toxic herbicides such as Monsanto's "Roundup.") Includes a prologue by K.D...
Keywords: GMO; biotechnology; agriculture; food; Monsanto; FDA
Downloads: 12 |
| New World Notes 261 - GMOs (2): Corruption - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for March 5, 2013. We adapt to radio Part 2 (and some of Part 3) of Gary Null's video documentary, "GMO: Ticking Time Bomb." Focus on the corrupt politics, corrupt science, and corporate strong-arm tactics (especially by Monsanto Corp.) that got genetically-modified food crops approved and established in the U.S. despite the absence of safety testing. Includes the stories of (and remarks by) two noted opponents of GM crops: farmer Percy Schmeiser and scientist Arpad Puszt...
Keywords: GMO; biotechnology; agriculture; food; Monsanto; FDA; Percy Schmeiser; Arpad Pusztai
Downloads: 7 |
| New World Notes 260 - Consumed, Part 2 - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for February 26, 2013. Consumerism and overconsumption, from the perspective of "evolutionary psychology." Features the second half of the video documentary, "Consumed: Inside the Belly of the Beast." I'm not so sure of the "evolutionary" part, but the conventional psychology, sociology, and economic history brought to bear here all seem insightful. Plus additional reflections by K.D...
Keywords: consumption; consumer; psychology; evolutionary psychology; Consumed; capitalism; economy; hippie; Charles Eisenstein
Downloads: 25 |
| New World Notes 259 - Consumed, Part 1 - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for February 19, 2013. Consumerism and overconsumption, from the perspective of "evolutionary psychology." Features the first half of the video documentary, "Consumed: Inside the Belly of the Beast." I'm not so sure of the "evolutionary" part, but the conventional psychology, sociology, and economic history brought to bear here all seem insightful. Plus additional reflections by K.D...
Keywords: consumption; consumer; psychology; evolutionary psychology; Consumed; capitalism; economy
Downloads: 8 |
| New World Notes 258 - GMOs - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for February 12, 2013. After some reflections on local produce (now but a fond memory in New England), we look at genetically-modified plants (GMOs) sold as food. Includes press and TV-news coverage on failed GMO-labelling bills in California and Connecticut (and on guerilla labellers stalking Connecticut's supermarket aisles). Plus selections from Gary Null's video documentary, "GMO: Ticking Time Bomb." http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com/ ...
Keywords: GMO; biotechnology; agriculture; food
Downloads: 18 |
| New World Notes 257 - Richard Heinberg (Part 2) - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for February 5, 2013. In Part 1, Richard Heinberg, of the Post Carbon Institute, began discussing today's intersecting global crises. These are the end of cheap energy, runaway global debt, and climate change (plus maybe overpopulation). Then in Part 2, Heinberg shows an underlying cause of all of these crises--the requirement for constant GROWTH in a capitalist economic system...
Keywords: Richard Heinberg; economy; capitalism; growth; peak oil; debt; climate change; global warming
Downloads: 9 |
| New World Notes 256 - Richard Heinberg (Part 1) - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for January 29, 2013. In Part 1, Richard Heinberg, of the Post Carbon Institute, discusses today's intersecting global crises. These are the end of cheap energy, runaway global debt, and climate change (plus maybe overpopulation). Then in Part 2 (next week), Heinberg shows an underlying cause of all of these crises--the requirement for constant GROWTH in a capitalist economic system...
Keywords: Richard Heinberg; economy; capitalism; growth; peak oil; debt; climate change; global warming
Downloads: 9 |
| New World Notes 255 - MLK vs. the War Machine - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for January 22, 2013. By late 1966, Martin Luther King realized that he could no longer focus on issues as narrow as voting rights and segregated housing. He had to oppose larger crimes and injustices including rampant militarism, the military-industrial-Congressional complex, and a U.S. foreign policy consisting of eternal war. The U.S. was then waging a major war in and against Vietnam...
Keywords: Martin Luther King; Beyond Vietnam; Riverside Church; antiwar; Vietnam war
Downloads: 38 |
| New World Notes 254 - Jobs - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for January 15, 2013. First a good short movie by Progressive economists ECON 4. They say that the country's budget deficit is NOT an important economic problem. The main economic problem is widespread UNEMPLOYMENT, and increased government spending should be part of the cure. Politicians of both parties are lying. Then KD reviews a scathing and very funny book, full of first-hand details of how the State Department botched Iraq reconstruction--written by a foreign servic...
Keywords: budget; deficit; economics; unemployment; ECON4; Peter Van Buren; We Meant Well; The Book Report; Iraq
Downloads: 21 |
| New World Notes 253 - Glenn Greenwald on Civil Liberties - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for January 8, 2013. A rousing talk by investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald. After explaining what "civil liberties" are, he describes the government's systematic destruction of Americans' civil liberties since 9-11-2001. He explains how they got away with it, what the consequences are (all of them bad), and how the people can fight back. Recorded live in New Britain, Connecticut, on December 8, 2012...
Keywords: Glenn Greenwald; civil liberties; Constitution
Downloads: 12 |
| New World Notes 252 - Crime Potpourri - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for January 1, 2013. We look at crime at several levels: retail (the Newtown, CT murders), wholesale (the entertainment industry), bigger wholesale (the financial system), and factory-direct (the Federal Government). Includes KD's reflections on Newtown & why the proposed new gun-control laws have zero relevance; a new David Rovics song on the Entertainment Biz; a short movie by "Econ4" on the government-assisted crimes of Wall Street; and a good essay by Paul Craig Rober...
Keywords: crime; Newtown; Wall Street; David Rovics; Hugo Chavez; Paul Craig Roberts; gun control
Downloads: 11 |
| New World Notes 251 - Comic Satire for Christmas - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for December 25, 2012. Some brief commentary by me, five seasonal songs, and one satiric imitation Broadway "big production number." All take a comic but critical view of American hypocrisies, religiosity, commercialism, class warfare, and other Christmastime traditions. I'm especially fond of the pseudo- "big production number": Stan Freberg's 1958 masterpiece, "Green Chri$tma$." The audio fidelity is excellent even by today's standards; the production is rich and sophis...
Keywords: Stan Freberg; Christmas; satire; Santa
Downloads: 7 |
| New World Notes 250 - Michael Ruppert on Peak Oil - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for December 18, 2012. A lucid and interesting explanation of "peak oil" and its consequences. Ruppert convincingly argues THAT the problem exists, how large the problem is ( = very), and why we can't swap some other source of energy for the cheap, plentiful petroleum that USED to be available. Ruppert also shows some of the geopolitical results of peak oil--Cheney's top-secret energy panel, our war on Iraq, etc...
Keywords: Michael Ruppert; collapse; peak oil; alternative energy
Downloads: 16 |
| New World Notes 249 - Surviving the Collapse - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for December 11, 2012. Secular prophet Michael Ruppert has been quirky, controversial ... and very often right. In this interesting monologue, he explains why Western industrial civilization is unsustainable and beginning to collapse--and what Americans can do to weather the transition. Surprisingly, he ends on a note of optimism. From Chris Smith's 2009 film, "Collapse." http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com/ ...
Keywords: Michael Ruppert; collapse; western civilization; industrial civilization
Downloads: 14 |
| New World Notes 248 - The Censored News - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for December 4, 2012. An impassioned speech by MICKEY HUFF, Director of Project Censored, on how the media support Established Power--by producing news stories that are biased, censored, and full of omissions and false assumptions. And by suppressing news stories that would call official policies into question. Also, we'll read selections from Project Censored's top stories of 2011-2012 unreported by the corporate media...
Keywords: media; press; reporting; news; Mickey Huff; Project Censored
Downloads: 13 |
| New World Notes 247 - Class, Health, and Health Care (Part 2) - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for November 27, 2012. An interview with health care reformer Dr. Susan Rosenthal on her recent book, Sick and Sicker. This week she discusses working-class life in England during the Industrial Revolution (ca. 1845), the problems with Canada's single-payer healthcare system (though it's still better than the U.S. system), how the profit motive and computers have brought us "assembly-line medicine," and the health-care reforms established in Chile, under Allende, in the 1...
Keywords: Susan Rosenthal; health care; capitalism; socialism; medicine; single payer; Chile; Canada; Salvador Allende; Engels
Downloads: 6 |
| New World Notes 246 - Class, Health, and Health Care (Part 1) - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for November 20, 2012. An interview with health care reformer Dr. Susan Rosenthal on her recent book, Sick and Sicker. This week she discusses the root cause of much disease--social inequality--and (as she sees it) the root cause of that: capitalism. She also discusess the practice of psychiatry, why depression is so common (and so poorly treated), and why, each year, for-profit medicine kills 23 times as many Americans as criminal use of firearms...
Keywords: Susan Rosenthal; health care; capitalism; socialism; psychiatry; medicine
Downloads: 10 |
| New World Notes 245 - Noam Chomsky: Three Short Talks - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for November 13, 2012. In an unrehearsed Q&A, Professor NOAM CHOMSKY addresses three probing questions on today's political and economic situation. His repy to each queston is a detailed, brilliant, and very interesting mini-lecture. Chomsky discusses (1) how intellectuals almost always support Established Power, (2) how the U.S. got into our current economic mess, and (3) what are the best solutions to the crisis of Palestine...
Keywords: Noam Chomsky; intellectuals; Palestine; Israel; capitalism; Left; economy
Downloads: 49 |
| New World Notes 244 - The Firesign Theatre - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for November 6, 2012. We belatedly mark the death (March 9) of Peter Bergman--a founding member of The Firesign Theaeer--by playing a large portion of the group's 1970 classic, "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers." Masters of irony, parody, travesty, and sound effects, Firesign created radio dramas satirizing a nation unable to tell reality from the nonsense on TV--nonsense concocted by prostitute politicians and corporate greedheads...
Keywords: Firesign Theater; election; politics; media
Downloads: 51 |
| New World Notes 243 - The Surprising Power of The People - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for October 30, 2012. Feeling powerless to change The System? HOWARD ZINN (1992), CHRIS HEDGES (2012), and singer DAVID ROVICS discuss several examples of how large-scale nonviolent popular resistance surprisingly appeared and forced major changes in--or overthrew--bad systems. From the Civil Rights movement in the South (1950s) to the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe (1980s) to the Arab Spring (2011-), citizens, nonviolently, often have produced major change...
Keywords: Howard Zinn; Chris Hedges; civil rights; Arab Spring; Czechoslovakia; East Germany; democracy
Downloads: 13 |
| New World Notes 240 - Dave Zirin on American Football - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for October 23, 2012. Sports fan and sports commentator DAVE ZIRIN gives an interesting and politically left-of-center view of NFL football. He tells of the upper-class origins of American football, its connections with "muscular Christanity" and with 19th century U.S. imperial adventures abroad. The game has always been violent and has been the cause of countless player injuries and deaths...
Keywords: Dave Zirin; football; NFL; sports; labor
Downloads: 22 |
| New World Notes 242 - Climate Crisis (Methane) - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for October 16, 2012. Another fine *audiocollage* by Chazk / Virtual Renderings. In several passages, veteran climate activist David Wasdell explains why global warming is not only getting worse but getting worse at an increasingly faster rate. Disaster looms. Spun around Wasdell's lecture are movie clips, songs, comedy routines, and whatnot from artists including Firesign Theater, George Carlin, Lee Camp, Al Gore, Natalie Merchant, and several others...
Keywords: climate change; global warming; methane; David Wasdell; Virtual Renderings; audiocollage
Downloads: 14 |
| New World Notes 241 - A Bummer of an Election - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for October 9, 2012. With Election 2012 we return to lesser-of-two-evils time. Or do we instead denounce the whole charade? For Progressives, Romney is G.W. Bush III--and so is Obama, pretty much. What to do? We'll read essays on crummy presidential elections by W.E.B. DUBOIS ("Why I Won't Vote," 1956) and CHRIS HEDGES ("How Do You Take Your Poison?" September 2012). We'll hear a funny trailer for a pretend GOP horror movie about Obama...
Keywords: election; Obama; W.E.B. Dubois; Chris Hedges; Lee Camp; Final Edition
Downloads: 8 |
| New World Notes 239 - The Crisis of Civilization (part 2) and More - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for October 2, 2012. Selections from the film documentary ... plus a good article by BRUCE DIXON on Obama and Romney. In the film, political analyst Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed discusses the 7 interconnected global crises we face. This week: militarization and destruction of civil liberties, plus conclusions. Old film clips brighten the commentary. Politicians of both parties won't even discuss 6 of these 7 crises...
Keywords: militarism; civil liberties; Crisis of Civilization; Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed; Bruce Dixon
Downloads: 16 |
| New World Notes 238 - The Crisis of Civilization (Part 1) - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for September 25, 2012. Selections from the recent film documentary. Political analyst Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed discusses the 7 interconnected global crises we are undergoing. This week we'll focus on economic instabiliy and terrorism. Old film clips brighten the thoughtful commentary. Of particular interest: how (and why) the invasion of Afghanistan was planned well before 9-11-2001...
Keywords: economics; recession; terrorism; Crisis of Civilization; Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed
Downloads: 21 |
| New World Notes 237 - Corporate Plunder & Popular Revolt (Part 2) - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for September 18, 2012. Journalist CHRIS HEDGES traces the rise of the Corporate State, the destruction of democracy, and the corporate plunder of society. And he surveys successful examples of nonviolent popular rebellion. This week he discusses the Obama Administration's assault on civil liberties--a way of suppressing both dissent and popular resistance to corporate plunder, he believes...
Keywords: corporation; capitalism; democracy; Chris Hedges; resistance; Obama; NDAA
Downloads: 58 |
| New World Notes 236 - Corporate Plunder & Popular Revolt (Part 1) - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for September 11, 2012. Journalist CHRIS HEDGES traces the rise of the Corporate State, the destruction of democracy, and the corporate plunder of society. And he surveys successful examples of nonviolent popular rebellion. This week he discusses how corporations subverted democracy in the US since 1914. And he takes us to some of America's "sacrifice zones"--areas devastated by unrestrained corporate plunder...
Keywords: corporation; capitalism; democracy; Chris Hedges; propaganda; Obama
Downloads: 89 |
| New World Notes 235 - Police State USA? - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for September 4, 2012. Has the US become a "police state" ... or are we just rapidly heading in that direction? Law professor Francis Boyle says we're already there, and it is dissenters--not "terrorists"--who are being targeted by the state. And we'll look at two recent reports documenting illegal and often violent acts by the New York Police Department--(1) in their CIA-assisted spying on Muslim citizens and (2) in their harassment of law-abiding Occupy Wall Street prot...
Keywords: Francis Boyle; civil liberties; terrorist; Occupy Wall Street; NYPD; Muslim; police
Downloads: 21 |
| New World Notes 234 - Things Fall Apart - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for August 28, 2012. The economy, American political democracy, the climate, the whole ecosystem--all seem to be collapsing at once. In a poem of 1920, W.B. Yeats noted, "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold." The show features a great routine on the very subject by George Carlin (early 1990s), music by James McMurtry ("Ruins of the Realm"), Yeats's poem, and somewhat humorous reflections by K.D...
Keywords: entropy; environment; ecology; kluge; George Carlin; Yeats; humor
Downloads: 47 |
| New World Notes 233 - Good Guns, Bad Guns - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for August 21, 2012. Reflecting on the Aurora murders, we consider the false distinction between "bad guns" and "good guns." Murders by police of unarmed citizens (some while in handcuffs). Massive killing of civilians overseas in our "War on Terror." And a President who claims the legal right to kill anyone he chooses--even US citizens--without charges or trial. And does. How can we condemn the RETAIL violence in Aurora while supporting the WHOLESALE violence at the hear...
Keywords: Aurora; James Holmes; handguns; semiautomatic; assault weapon; gun; War on Terror; Obama; police
Downloads: 19 |
| New World Notes 232 - Radio Great Jean Shepherd - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for August 14, 2012. A tribute to the ad-lib art of late-night radio storyteller Jean Shepherd. Includes a condensed version of one of his great monologues, from October 1965 (WOR AM-FM, New York). It's a humorous tale of grenade-replica cigarette lighters, the real George Washington, crime in real life vs. on TV, and life among the rednecks in Covington, KY, in the 1950s. Intro by KD...
Keywords: Jean Shepherd; guns; crime; Covington; Kentucky; radio
Downloads: 121 |
| New World Notes 231B - American Sex and Sexuality-CORRECTED - Kenneth Dowst
These files SUPERSEDE the original files for New World Notes #231. They correct a severe audio glitch. With jaundiced eye and sometimes tongue in cheek, we survey the sad state of sex and sexuality in the US. Highlights include HELEN GURLEY BROWN's (ironic?) advice to married men on how to conduct an affair, PAT McCORMICK's parody of a TV game show exposing adulterers, an article on Eliot Spitzer (NY Governor who resigned following news exposure that he patronized prostitutes), and a monologue b...
Keywords: sex; sexuality; America; Eliot Spitzer; Helen Gurley Brown; popular culture
Downloads: 37 |
| New World Notes 231 - American Sex and Sexuality - Kenneth Dowst
The original files for #231 had a severe audio glitch. Please listen to or download the CORRECTED version. You'll find it at http://archive.org/details/NewWorldNotes231b-AmericanSexAndSexuality-corrected For an ordered listing of all "New World Notes" programs archived here, copy and paste this URL into your browser's address window: http://archive.org/search.php?query=%22New%20World%20Notes%22%20AND%20collection%3Aopensource_audio&sort=-date
Keywords: sex; sexuality; America; Eliot Spitzer; Helen Gurley Brown; popular culture
Downloads: 12 |
| New World Notes 230 - War, Language, and the Media - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for July 31, 2012. Language doesn't just reflect your understanding of reality: it SHAPES it. The Pentagon (and its pet, the State Department) knows this and creates language to mislead us about what it is actually doing. First I and then MICHAEL PARENTI (in a fine talk from the 1990s) expore how it works. Of particular interest: Parenti's debunking of the "Gaddafi-is-a-menace" rhetoric, ca...
Keywords: Pentagon; propaganda; language; Englsh composition; Michael Parenti; Gaddafi; Libya
Downloads: 25 |
| New World Notes 229 - Nothing New Under the Sun - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for July 24, 2012. History is taught so as to (1) instill patriotism and submission to the rulers and (2) make people hate the REAL study of history. Real history shows that events in the news are but the latest examples in a long pattern. NOAM CHOMSKY shows that "Arab Spring" rebellions have been occurring for 100 years (usually suppressed by dictators, with US backing). CHRIS HEDGES shows how the 1% has waged war against the 99% for 200 years, with examples from the US,...
Keywords: capitalism; imperialism; class war; Arab Spring; Noam Chomsky; Chris Hedges; history
Downloads: 27 |
| New World Notes 228 - Ethos (Part 2) - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for July 17, 2012. Second of 2 parts. A quirky and interesting film by Pete McGrain on the character of our time. It's about democracy, and national policies, and why the policies are so anti-democratic. It's about how politicians and corporate elites have declared war on democracy, and how they use the corporate news media as powerful weapons to control public opinion. And it's about how these people give us perpetual REAL war for the sake of its high profits...
Keywords: democracy; corporations; capitalism; news; media; war; Pete McGrain; Ethos
Downloads: 13 |
| New World Notes 227 - Ethos (Part 1) - Kenneth Dowst
30-minute radio program for July 10, 2012. First of 2 parts. A quirky and interesting film by Pete McGrain on the character of our time. It's about democracy, and national policies, and why the policies are so anti-democratic. It's about how politicians and corporate elites have declared war on democracy, and how they use the corporate news media as powerful weapons to control public opinion. And it's about how these people give us perpetual REAL war for the sake of its high profits...
Keywords: democracy; corporations; capitalism; news; media; war; Pete McGrain; Ethos
Downloads: 12 |
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